HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 177, 26 May 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

HOME HINTS. A broken clothes peg makes an excellent window wedge. * * * * Tojioop suet iiesli bury it iu tlio floiii-"iln. * * * -V good boot polish it, excellent for cleaning stoves. J prevents the black dust which is unavc. lahle with ordinary grate plosihcs. * * # An old sun-bonnet will be found most iiselul for protecting the hair from dust when swooping, black-loading grates, and doing other dirty housework. Before baking potatoes stand them in hot water ior jiltven minutes, and they will bake in half tne time, and bo more mealy when cooked. ' * * If oranges are snaked in boiling wafer for live minutes before pooling" they will be much more juicy, and the white skin will come oil' with the rind * * * Sav e used tea loaves. Stand thorn for twenty minutes in a pail, then strain and use the liquid for cleaning paint, oilcloth, mirrors and similar things. * * * Home-made baking powder.—Mix together two ounces of tartaric acid, three ounces of carbonate of soda, and three ounces and a halt of ground rice or nee flour. Those quantities make half a pound of haking-powdci * * * A SUBSTITUTE FOR SUET. Get a pound of butcher's 'at trimmings, put it into the oven to melt, and pour off the fat as it melts. When cold, chop and use as shredded suet. '1 his will keep good for weeks, and loss is needed for cooking than when suet is used. ECONOMISE ON YOUR OAS BILL. Always keep the main gas tap onlv half on. If it is turned on full th'o gas rushes through the pipes, and a great deal is wasted. It is a great mistake to lielieve that the higher the gas is turned on greater the heat and the quicker the saucepan will boil. \\ lien the whole of the oven is not required, lower the "browner'' or plain iron sheet half-way down, and use the lower hall of the oven tor cooking. This will use very little gas. Get a sheet of very thin iron the size of th© top of the gas-stove with narrow raised edges. Put this on the stove after Ighting the iargest burner, and several saucepans can be kept boiling with that one ring.

TINY TRUTHS. A society woman's iiloa of a foolish girl is one who wants to marry for love. * # ♦ V It doesn't seem in keeping with romance that love stories should be written for money. • * » A gnat vocalist is a girl who can sing a baby to sleep when it insists on keepinn awake. t * « • Silence may give consent, but it's a poor thing on which to base a breach ot promise suit. * * * * A plain woman always feels much better after meeting a woman who is plainer than herself.

*** . . * There i.s one blessing in lx?ing plain; you an> not always worrying if you aro looking your k>st. A smut or two really makes very little difference, after all. DAINTY DISHES. SOME INEXPENSIVE DISHES. HAKE I) RABBIT. Season some breadcrumbs with pepper, salt, and mixed herbs, a littlo chopped onion, and a lablcspoontul of chopped parsley. Divide tli rabbit into neat joints, flour them well, and place on the breadcrumbs, cover with rashers of pork or bacon, add half a pint of milk and water mixed, and cook slowly for an hour and a half. OXIOX DUMPLINGS. (For Serving With Baked Rabbit). Chop one-quarter ot a pound of suet very linely and adu one quarter of a pound of onions, also finely chopped. Add one-quarter of a pound of flour and a seasoning of salt and pepper. Mix all together with a little milk and water, making very solt. Form into tiny balls and boil for one hour in stock and water. APPLE AND BAXAX A TRIFLE. Taki* six bananas and slice them thinly, put them into a glass dish. Stew one pound of apples, sweetened to taste, and allow them to cool, then add to the bananas; crumble in three stale penny sponge cakes. Make a custard with one pint of milk and custard powder and pour over the whole. Decorate with preserved cherries and anguliea. AX INEXPENSIVE HOME-MADE BRAWN*. Clean one sheep's head, Mid put i f in a fam-epan with two quarts ot water. Boil it slowly till the meat, comes off the hones, then remove the bones, add a largo onion, sliced, a little chopped parsley, and a seasoning of pepper and salt. Boil all together lor one hour, then pour into a mould and leave till next day. 'I hi- makes about two pounds of lira\\ 11. TO RE-HEAT COLD BEEF. Cut about one pound of cold roast I,erf into slices. Melt an ounce of huttor in a saucepan, and add to it two ounces of streaky bacon, cut into dice, and add one onion sliced. Fry these to a li'iht brown. Then put ill the ; Ji,MS of be.'f, an! pour three-quarters of a pint of tomato sauce over all, and cook slowly for half an hour without allowing tiic contents to boil. Serve with squares of fried bread round the dish. MACARONI AND MEAT BALLS. Break six ounces of macaroni into small pieces, and put it into boiling water with a little salt for liftoon minute-. Put a slice of stale bread into a basin, and pour a gill of hot stock over it. Beat up one egsr, drain tho macaroni and season it with a pinch ol sweetherbs. Beat up the bread with a fork and mix with it a pound of cold cooked meat, finely minted, odd the macaroni and tl*' beaten cog. Mix fdl together and put into a buttered basin, press it firmly down, er.v#r with buttered paper, and steam for one hour. Turn out and serve with brown gravy.